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  • Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture by De Baca, Miguel
    Miguel De Baca

    Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture

    Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthetic in the 1960s, Truitt was tireless in her pursuit of a strong cultural voice. At the heart of her practice was...
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  • The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas: Illustrated Adventures Along the West Coasts Historic Highways (Travel Guide to Washington, Oregon, California & Pc by O'Leary, Chandler
    Chandler O'Leary

    The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas: Illustrated Adventures Along the West Coasts Historic Highways (Travel Guide to Washington, Oregon, California & Pc

    Take the ultimate West Coast road trip this summer with The Best Coast--a full-color illustrated travel guide to all the must-visit roadside attractions, beloved landmarks, hidden histories, and offbeat delights on Washington, Oregon, and California's historic highways, include the Pacific Coast Highway! From San...
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  • Twinka Thiebaud: And the Art of the Pose by Yahr, Jayme
    Jayme Yahr

    Twinka Thiebaud: And the Art of the Pose

    Seventy years, thirty-three artists, one subject. The first publication to highlight Twinka Thiebaud's career as an artist's model. Over the course of seven decades, Twinka Thiebaud has collaborated with more than thirty artists working in photography, painting, and drawing. This is the first catalog...
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  • Maxfield Parrish: Machinist, Artisan, Artist by Lather, Frank
    Frank Lather

    Maxfield Parrish: Machinist, Artisan, Artist

    In 1923, The Boston Globe announced to a surprised American public that the country's most beloved painter was also a mechanic. Maxfield Parrish, "the painter of those brilliant landscape-s creator of the atmospheric fantasy of fairyland," had a work shop that would be the...
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  • Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection by Pennington
    Pennington

    Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection

    The late, eminent scholar Clement Eaton once observed that the nineteenth- century romantic spirit, which "subtly permeated the society of the Old South," was borne out most vividly in the region's "arts and social manners." Having had its genesis in European literature and fine...
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  • Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture by Doris, Sara
    Sara Doris

    Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture

    Pop Art and the Contest Over American Culture examines the socially and aesthetically subversive character of pop art. Providing a historically contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara Doris locates the movement within the larger framework of the social, cultural, and political transformations of...
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  • Jay Defeo and the Rose by Green, Jane
    Jane Green

    Jay Defeo and the Rose

    Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central figure of the Beat generation of San Francisco, was just starting to garner widespread...
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  • Paul Kontny: A Modern Artist in Europe and America by Cuba, Stan
    Stan Cuba

    Paul Kontny: A Modern Artist in Europe and America

    The strength and vitality of Denver artist Paul Kontny's work reflected his passion for life and the inspiration he found in his environment. Happy to have escaped death during World War II, he relished the opportunity to paint and sculpt those subjects that fascinated...
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  • Cy Twombly - Inscriptions: Vol. I-Vol. VI by Greub, Thierry
    Thierry Greub

    Cy Twombly - Inscriptions: Vol. I-Vol. VI

    Cy Twombly (1928-2011), one of America's most important artists, inscribed on his works written notes and fragments of poetry, even whole poems, throughout the whole period of his creative activity. The present Catalogue of Inscriptions for the first time collects in six opulent volumes...
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  • A Land So Remote: Volume 1: Religious Art of New Mexico, 1780-1907 by Frank, Larry
    Larry Frank

    A Land So Remote: Volume 1: Religious Art of New Mexico, 1780-1907

    This book explores aspects of the artist's work in the Santa Fe and Taos colonies, his friendship with dance choreographer Martha Graham, and his important collection of Hispano religious folk art.Author: Larry FrankISBN-10: 1878610732ISBN-13: 9781878610737Publisher: Museum of NM Press/Red Crane BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 282Format:...
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  • Hey, That Lady Has No Clothes On! Bath Time- 2002 by Nicosia, Robert
    Robert Nicosia

    Hey, That Lady Has No Clothes On! Bath Time- 2002

    Although I waited until of was 58 to start to oil paint, I had always had a desire to try my hand at oil painting but life always got in the way. At 58, I certainly qualified as an adult senior student and wrote...
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  • The World of James McNeill Whistler by Gregory, Horace
    Horace Gregory

    The World of James McNeill Whistler

    Author: Horace GregoryISBN-10: 1258213621ISBN-13: 9781258213626Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d
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  • From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Spender, Matthew
    Matthew Spender

    From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

    An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood-his family fled the Turks' genocide...
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  • American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979 by Lynn, Martha Drexler
    Martha Drexler Lynn

    American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

    An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century In the mid-20th century, ceramics evolved from a utilitarian craft or therapeutic hobby into a well-recognized fine art that continues to occupy a place in today's art...
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  • Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages by Schwartz, Alexandra
    Alexandra Schwartz

    Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

    An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha.Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into...
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  • Keith Haring by Deitch, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Deitch

    Keith Haring

    Closely based on Haring's own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From...
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  • Here to Help! (within reason): Studio Manager Flyers, California Institute of the Arts - 2006-2019 by Hogan, John P.
    John P. Hogan

    Here to Help! (within reason): Studio Manager Flyers, California Institute of the Arts - 2006-2019

    In the mid-2000s, CalArts was still operating in an alarmingly analogue fashion. Inter-office mail was delivered via reusable envelopes dating back decades. Work orders were filed using carbon paper. There was a large bulletin board in the art office, originally a muted light green,...
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  • The Bible in Iron;: Or, the Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of the Pennsylvania Germans by Mercer, Henry C.
    Henry C. Mercer

    The Bible in Iron;: or, The Pictured Stoves and Stove Plates of The Pennsylvania Germans

    Documents and studies colonial-era cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. Originally published in 1914. Author: Henry C. MercerISBN-10: 0271064536ISBN-13: 9780271064536Publisher: Metalmark BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2014Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.39d
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  • Gyöngy Laky by Grotta, Tom
    Tom Grotta

    Gygy Laky

    The first comprehensive monograph on the work of this exceptional artist An important document that explores the foundations of the Fiber Art movement in America Renowned American textile artist and sculptor Gygy Laky (b. 1944) was once described as a 'wood whisperer.' Her highly...
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  • Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement by Corby, Vanessa
    Vanessa Corby

    Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement

    Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art. Using exciting new feminist approaches and taking as her starting point two key works, Corby reveals the way...
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  • Moma Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art by Riley, Caroline M.
    Caroline M. Riley

    MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art

    Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art's first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was...
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  • William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War by Elder, Nika
    Nika Elder

    William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting After the American Civil War

    Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's career-long effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika...
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  • The Unforgettables: Expanding the History of American Art by Eldredge, Charles C.
    Charles C. Eldredge

    The Unforgettables: Expanding the History of American Art

    Eminent art historian Charles C. Eldredge brings together top scholars to celebrate forgotten artists and create a more inclusive history of American art. Why do some artists become canonical, while others, equally respected in their time, fall into obscurity? This question is central to...
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  • Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies by Grudin, Anthony E.
    Anthony E. Grudin

    Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol's Queer Ecologies

    A bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol. Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an...
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  • Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century by Barrett, Ross
    Ross Barrett

    Speculative Landscapes: American Art and Real Estate in the Nineteenth Century

    Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy--Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow...
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  • Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook by Matta-Clark, Gordon
    Gordon Matta-Clark

    Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook

    An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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  • State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 by Lewallen, Constance M.
    Constance M. Lewallen

    State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

    State of Mind, the lavishly illustrated companion book to the exhibition of the same name, investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art--in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. The essays reveal connections between the northern and...
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  • Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Bryan-Wilson, Julia
    Julia Bryan-Wilson

    Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era

    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of creative labor by identifying themselves as "art workers." In the first book...
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  • The Writings of Robert Motherwell by Motherwell, Robert
    Robert Motherwell

    The Writings of Robert Motherwell

    Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school -Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others-during a...
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  • Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook by Matta-Clark, Gordon
    Gordon Matta-Clark

    Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook

    An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has...
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  • Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University by Singerman, Howard
    Howard Singerman

    Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University

    Nearly every artist under the age of fifty in the United States today has a Master of Fine Arts degree. Howard Singerman's thoughtful study is the first to place that degree in its proper historical framework and ideological context. Arguing that where artists are...
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  • The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning by Ashton, Dore
    Dore Ashton

    The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning

    With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued and critiqued...
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  • Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection by Manthorne, Katherine
    Katherine Manthorne

    Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

    In the 19th century, European and North American travelers illustrated narratives of their explorations in the New World that were published in Europe. Europeans imagined the tropics as a site for cultural imperialism and fantasies of self-realization. Traveler artists often authenticated this perception by...
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  • Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design by Heller, Steven
    Steven Heller

    Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design

    The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925 2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious...
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  • Arsham-Isms by Arsham, Daniel
    Daniel Arsham

    Arsham-Isms

    A collection of compelling quotations from a rising star in contemporary art, architecture, and design The work of renowned contemporary artist Daniel Arsham blurs the lines between art, architecture, archeology, and design. In his distinctive style, he takes ancient art works and objects from...
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  • The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson by Gibson, Charles Dana
    Charles Dana Gibson

    The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the "American Girl" -- now remembered as the Gibson Girl -- became the national ideal of femininity. This collection of his images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing...
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  • The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again by Warhol, Andy
    Andy Warhol

    The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

    In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party--so that he could get in. But more often...
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  • Sketchbook by Arsham, Daniel
    Daniel Arsham

    Sketchbook

    Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mind Sketchbook reproduces original working drawings and sketches by the contemporary American artist and designer Daniel Arsham, whose work freely crosses the boundaries...
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  • Richard Rezac: Address by Rezac, Richard
    Richard Rezac

    Richard Rezac: Address

    The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific...
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  • Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater by Maurer, Christopher
    Christopher Maurer

    Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater

    Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband--a grain merchant--she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside...
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  • American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe by Black, Patti Carr
    Patti Carr Black

    American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe

    The four artists featured in American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé are linked as pioneers of modernism in the South. In this catalog to one of the American Masters Series exhibits funded by the National...
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  • The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Marter, Joan
    Joan Marter

    The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

    The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art is an ambitious publishing endeavor, unparalleled in its comprehensive approach to the study of art in the United States. Edited by Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, the five-volume Encyclopedia reconceptualizes American Art from...
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  • Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History by Stuckey, Sterling
    Sterling Stuckey

    Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History

    Upon his arrival in the North, Frederick Douglass found, to his utter astonishment, "persons who could speak of the singing among slaves as the evidence of their contentment and happiness." As late as 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois observed that African American spirituals had led...
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  • Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War by Lubin, David M.
    David M. Lubin

    Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War

    A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of America's first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the...
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  • American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition by Holliday, Peter J.
    Peter J. Holliday

    American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition

    A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never...
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  • Matter and Spirit: Stephen de Staebler by Burgard, Timothy Anglin
    Timothy Anglin Burgard

    Matter and Spirit: Stephen de Staebler

    "Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."--Stephen De StaeblerOver the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage...
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  • Emily Mason: The Light in Spring by Ebony, David
    David Ebony

    Emily Mason: The Light in Spring

    With exquisite full-page color reproductions, Emily Mason: The Light in Spring reveals sixty-eight recent canvases along with thirty-two prints, covering Mason's work with five master printers. David Ebony continues where he left off in his 2006 volume, Emily Mason: The Fifth Element, elaborating on...
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  • Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War by Israel, Matthew
    Matthew Israel

    Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War (1964-1975) divided American society like no other war of the twentieth century, and some of the most memorable American art and art-related activism of the last fifty years protested U.S. involvement. At a time when Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art...
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  • Norman Rockwell's Faith of America by Bauer, Fred
    Fred Bauer

    Norman Rockwell's Faith of America

    Fred Bauer writes about Rockwell's message of optimism and the artist's faith in America and its people in a forthright and sympathetic text complemented by numerous Rockwell favorites in all their warmth and color. Bauer visits Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Arlington, Vermont, talking to the...
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  • Pollock by Emmerling, Leonhard
    Leonhard Emmerling

    Pollock

    The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and...
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